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A Watson "Royal" Compound Microscope
lot 248 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1900, signed to the back of the foot ‘W Watson & Sons, Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London, 7887’, mechanical substage with screw X-Y control ... read more
Estimated at £600 - £800 More details 5
An Unusual Microscope by Watson & Son, London
lot 249 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1900, the base engraved ''WATSON & SONS 313 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON' and to the inside of the lid in gilt lettering, microscope on heavy base ... read more
Sold for £175 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 250 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
German, c.1900, with label for 'E. LEITZ WETZLAR' on heavy cast iron base with chrome plated flywheel, geared advance to specimen, with box ... read more
Sold for £112 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Watson & Sons, Microscope Oil Lamp
lot 251 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1880, engraved to the base 'W. WATSON & SONS 313 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON W.C.', oil lamp on circular base with glass oil reservoir, black ... read more
Sold for £288 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Collection of Microscope Accessories
lot 252 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Including: a microscope microspectroscope, c.1890, unsigned, probably German, with rack and pinion focus, micrometer adjustment to top slit; a cased ... read more
Sold for £1,750 Result plus buyers premium More details 8
A Royal Microscopical Society Objective Thread Tap
lot 253 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
an RMS objective thread tap stamped RE 36, age unknown, For Similar see RMS collection Great Age of the microscope, page 348 -351
Sold for £62 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Collection of Carl Zeiss Objectives & A Cover Glass Gauge
lot 254 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
including: a large objective engraved C. ZEISS JENA, Tubusl 250mm6.0mm Apert 0.95, with correction collar and can; a large objective engraved C. ... read more
Sold for £750 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Olympus Differential Interference Contrast Attachment
lot 255 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Olympus NIC/Phase Contrast condenser, the condenser with 4 Wollaston Prisms marked 10, 40 and 100 with corresponding phase filters, with Aplanat ... read more
Sold for £650 Result plus buyers premium More details 7
Powell & Lealand Microscope Accessories
lot 256 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
including an achromatic condenser engraved Powell & Lealand RMS diameter collar, early Wenham parabolic condenser to fit substage beyonet fitting, ... read more
Sold for £625 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A Powell & Lealand 1/25 inch Objective
lot 256A (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c. 1870, signed to the lid of the can ‘1/25’, objective with correction collar and engraved ’POWELL & LEALAND, No.50 1/25 Immersion, N.A. ... read more
Sold for £475 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Powell & Lealand 1/12" Objective & Can
lot 256B (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1870, objective engraved in script 'Powell & Lealand London, with correction collar, RMS thread
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 3
A Powell & Lealand ¼ inch Apochromatic Objective
lot 256C (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c. 1880, signed to the lid of the can ’POWELL & LEALAND, LONDON, ¼ Apochromatic, N.A. 0.95’, objective with correction collar and engraved ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 3
A Large Powell & Lealand 1/2 inch Apochromatic Objective
lot 256D (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c. 1870, signed to the lid of the can ’POWELL & LEALAND, LONDON, 1/2 Apochromatic’, objective engraved ’POWELL & LEALAND, Apochromatic, N.A. ... read more
Sold for £150 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 256E (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
including one engraved 'POWELL & LEALAND 10' and the other engraved 'POWELL & LEALAND 20'
Sold for £125 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A Good Set of 72 Microscope Slides
lot 257 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
a good set of mixed microscope slides including 6 microphotographs, diatoms, coal fossil, stone from Nottingham Castle dated 1865, and many others in ... read more
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Good Clean Collection of 57 Victorian Microscope Slides
lot 258 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Later polished pine flip front case containing a collection of very well preserved microscope slides including 4 slides attributed to Andrew ... read more
Sold for £500 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
A Set of William Webb Microphotographs & Micro-Writting Prints
lot 259 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Period leather case containing 6 microscope slides, labels read 'God Save the Queen printed from a copper plat engraved in the International ... read more
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
K. D. Kemp, Butterfly Scales Exhibition Microscope Slide
lot 260 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
the slide with Kemp's label to the top 'BUTTERFLY SCALES EXHIBITION' and to the bottom 'BUNCH OF FLOWERS 100 FORMS FOR TOP LIGHT 8/2006 K.D.KEMP' in ... read more
Sold for £300 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
William Webb Micro-Engraved Microscope Slide
lot 261 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
William Webb, retailed by 'W. Watson & Sons London' top label reads 'The Lords Prayer engraved on glass with a diamond, 227 letters' and the bottom ... read more
Sold for £225 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Collection of Microscope Slids on Card Cases
lot 262 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
good collection of clean microscope slides in 2 card cases, collection includes diatom mounts, micrometer slide, a paper covered slide marked ... read more
Sold for £938 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Glass Bottle Containing Soundings from the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition, 1876
lot 263 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Glass Bottle, hand blown with pontil mark with label that reads 'Washigs of Soundings No.337 Date 9.March.1876 Lat37 47 5 Long 30 20 W Depth 1715 ... read more
Sold for £600 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Quekett, John Thomas, 2 Microscope Slides
lot 264 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
2 microscope slides with labels that read 'Injection Lung of Boa, prepared by prof. Quekett' in a period leather case,the sample mounted in a deep ... read more
Sold for £312 Result plus buyers premium More details 7
Cutner, John K., Paleobotany Microscope Slide Collection
lot 265 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Collection of 128 coal fossil microscope slides prepared by John Cutner when employed by Flatters & Garnet in the 1950's contained within a locable ... read more
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Collection of 6 Microscope Microphotographs, lab
lot 266 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
with labels that read: Dancer, J. B., THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES FROM BLACKWOOD; Edinburgh from cotton hill; The Giants Causeway; Jerusalem in her ... read more
Sold for £162 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
WWII, Husun Herny Hughes, Flying Boat 3 1/2 inch Sextant
lot 267 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, dated 1941, engraved REF No.68/177 and numbered 44368 with trade label to lid for Husun, Henry Hughes & Son Ltd, finished in black crackle ... read more
Sold for £212 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A 19th-Century Oxidised Brass Everest-Pattern Theodolite
lot 268 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1900, signed 'T Cooke & Sons, York' and with a military arrow and 'No.96 12F and to the top 'O.S. EVEREST 5" No.12F' , the telescope with ... read more
Sold for £238 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 269 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
German, c.1890, engraved along the scale 'C. Plath Hamberg', typical construction with 3 circle frame, with 3 screw in eyepieces all in fitted wooden ... read more
Sold for £175 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
German Sextant, C. Plath, Hamburg
lot 270 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
German, c.1900, engraved 'C. PLATH, HAMBURG' to the edge of the scale, of typical lattice frame design, with 2 screw in telescopes and a later ... read more
Sold for £188 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 271 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1890, engraved 'J. Hicks 8, 9 & 10 Hatton Garden, London' , of typical form with screw in telescope, platinum scale with vernier and ... read more
Sold for £212 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
lot 272 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Chinese, 19th Century, constructed of a single piece of turned wood with magnetic compass in the centre, the surface covered in Chinese characters, ... read more
Sold for £125 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Unusual Artillery/Gun Director
lot 273 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, dated 1916 telescopes engraved 'TELESCOPE SIGHTING No.12 MK.1 W OTTWAY & Co LtdEALING No.180 1915' with military arrow, the body signed on ... read more
Sold for £525 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Double Frame Sextant, Troughton, London
lot 274 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1840, engraved in copperplate script below the scale 'Troughton London', sextant with magnifier to vernier scale, all filters, turned ... read more
Sold for £300 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 275 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, dated to the label 19th Nov 1947, of typical 3 circle design, quick release vernier, sextant with all filters & mirrors, 3 telescope tubes ... read more
Sold for £138 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
Black Glass Artificial Horizon, Worthington & Allen
lot 276 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, C.1825, engraved in copperplate script 'Worthington & Allen, London' brass frame on 3 levelling screws with black glass mirror in fitted ... read more
Sold for £388 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
19th Century French Surveyors Compass
lot 277 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
French, C.1860, unsigned, French polished wooden frame supporting large brass compass, telescope on arm with spirit level, ball & socket mount to ... read more
Sold for £275 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 278 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c. WWI, engraved to the back 'HELIO 5" MK V T.B.S.' and to the tripod, 'STAND LAMP OR HELIO A MK III', complete in its original leather case ... read more
Sold for £262 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 279 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English c.1900, engraved 'Heath & Co New Eltham, London S.E.9', sextant with filters, telescope, silver scales, wooden handle, on brass sextant ... read more
Sold for £1,625 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
Swedish Dry Card Compass Yacht Binnacle, C. M Hammar
lot 280 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Swedish, c.1900, lamp house with silver plaque engraved 'C. M. Hammar, Goteborg', binnacle mounted on polished wooden base with brass support to ... read more
Sold for £500 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
19th Century German Octant by Kosbu, Hamburg
lot 281 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
(Ω) German, c.1850, engraved 'I. KOSBU HAMBURG', wooden frame with brass fittings, brass sight with 3 mirrors, in fitted shaped case (Ω) Footnote: ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 5
lot 282 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, dated to the label 9th Oct 1912, label marked G & S, compass mounted in a gimbal supported in the base on 2 uprights, compass with engraved ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 4
lot 283 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
French, c.1900, compass engraved 'Fraget A Paris' on 3 screw feet, silvered horizontal circle, black compass with 4in vertical circle with silver ... read more
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
19th Century Telegraph Cable Section
lot 284 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
engraved around the brass collar 'Felten& Guilleaume Carlswerk A G Koln Mulheim, Krarup seekableHolland - England 155km4 x 4 FernsprAdern& 1 Telegr ... read more
Sold for £275 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
A NEMA TD 507 Cipher Machine, Swiss
lot 285 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Swiss, mid 20th Century, with makers plaque stamped TD 507, complete with original instructions, the 10-wheel cipher machine used by the Swiss Army ... read more
Estimated at £5,000 - £6,000 More details 11
Thacher's Calculating Instrument, Model N4012
lot 286 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
American, c.1900, with lable to the base for 'Thachers Calculating Instrument' with makers label to inside of case for 'keuffel & Esser Co, Hoboken N. ... read more
Sold for £600 Result plus buyers premium More details 9
A Type 1 Curta Calculator, Liechtenstein
lot 287 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
A Type 1 Curta Calculator, Liechtenstein, dated* 1969, calculator stamped '"CURTA" and to the base 'System Curt Herzstark, Made in Liechtenstein by ... read more
Sold for £725 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Hannyngton's Extended Slide Rule
lot 288 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, dated 1917, stamped to the rear of the scale 'Designed by Major General Hannington, Aston & Mander 1917 Ltd, Makers London' polished wooden ... read more
Sold for £725 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
A Fuller's Calculator by Stanley
lot 289 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, serial no. for 12202 57, with a label to the lid of the case for 'W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd, London', the spiral slide rule with an inner ... read more
Sold for £212 Result plus buyers premium More details 7
An Addison - Luard Course & Wind Calculator
lot 290 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
English, c.1920, engraved 'H. HUGHES & SON Ltd LONDON No.228' and above 'THE ADDISON-LAUD COURSE & WIND CALCULATOR, 7 - INCH AIR TYPE B, PAT. No, ... read more
Sold for £500 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 291 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
Liechtenstein, dated from the serial number501298 to 1953, plate to the base reads 'System Curt Herzstark Made in Liechtenstein, by Contina Ltd ... read more
Sold for £938 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
An Important Collection of Early English Silicon Microchip Wafers
lot 292 (The Fine Collectors Sale, 12th Mar, 2025)
A collection of Early English Silicon and Gallium Arsedide wafers, including a case of 25 blank silicon wafers in a plastic case, a chrome ... read more
Sold for £200 Result plus buyers premium More details 7